Wisconsin Voters Rejected Musk. Now Tighten Campaign Laws.

In Wisconsin, a deeply polarized swing state where elections often are decided by fractions, liberal Judge Susan Crawford won a decisive victory against conservative Judge Brad Schimel and sent a shiver through the MAGA universe.

That’s because Schimel had been backed by two of the heaviest hitters in American politics: President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, whose unelected role at Trump’s side has given him immense power. As of Wednesday morning, with 98% of the vote counted, Crawford was ahead by 10 percentage points in a state Trump carried by less than one point last fall.